"From the Ted Talk by David Agus: A new strategy in the war on cancer"

Unscramble the Blue Letters

And so, if you think of cancer as a setysm, there's an input and an output and a state in the middle. So, the staets, are equivalent classes of history, and the cancer patient, the input, is the eeinnvrnomt, the diet, the treatment, the genetic mutations. The output are our symptoms: Do we have pain? Is the cancer growing? Do we feel bloated, etc.? Most of that state is hddien. So what we do in our field is we change and input, we give arivgegsse chemotherapy, and we say, "Did that output get better? Did that pain improve, etc.?"

Open Cloze

And so, if you think of cancer as a ______, there's an input and an output and a state in the middle. So, the ______, are equivalent classes of history, and the cancer patient, the input, is the ___________, the diet, the treatment, the genetic mutations. The output are our symptoms: Do we have pain? Is the cancer growing? Do we feel bloated, etc.? Most of that state is ______. So what we do in our field is we change and input, we give __________ chemotherapy, and we say, "Did that output get better? Did that pain improve, etc.?"

Solution

environment

states

hidden

aggressive

system

Original Text

And so, if you think of cancer as a system, there's an input and an output and a state in the middle. So, the states, are equivalent classes of history, and the cancer patient, the input, is the environment, the diet, the treatment, the genetic mutations. The output are our symptoms: Do we have pain? Is the cancer growing? Do we feel bloated, etc.? Most of that state is hidden. So what we do in our field is we change and input, we give aggressive chemotherapy, and we say, "Did that output get better? Did that pain improve, etc.?"